No more illustrator.. i had to burn it

After a few annoying hours, it think i may have figure out what i was doing on illustrator, or at least i figure out some of the trick to making that damn pen tool work (well by figure out i mean i asked Kendall...) Any who, that is not important what is is the product and the product is the above show dress:
From the above pictures you can see the progression that taken place from the original uploading of the drawing to the final colored and line product. Here i have a dress that i designed, nothing terribly special, but i like it. It mixes a little bit of contemporary with a few classic cuts here and there. But the real feat was getting the color into this damn thing. I have never been a computer person so to mess around on illustrator no matter what's been told is a bad idea but after some help and a bit of fiddling around i managed to get a color gradient and lay out that i liked. I feel the gray blue to white gives the dress the soft feel a wedding gown should have, at least int he conventional sort of way, and yet the shine of color gives the wedding dress that modern look, where it is becoming more customary to wear a colored wedding gown.
All in all i like the end result despite the hell and hair loss that was caused because of it.

LOGOS LOGOS LOGOS

To explain real quick how this blog will work, i have the two parts of the logo present (symbol and text) then i have the finished work integrating them both together... that is, if i ordered them right when i uploaded them...
Anywho: Logo ONE- May not be the most flowery or decorative design seen for wedding shops but i think it still fits the topic to a T. It's a playful symbol of what buying your wedding dress is like- a mad hunt to find the perfect one. So i mixed in a what looks like a radar or target, put a very modern sketch of dress in its line of sight.

Down here!
so when i saved it i guess i didn't notice how much excess it gave it...whoops...
anyway LOGO 2: I like the sleek and simple look that some logos have so i tried this here. I left the color pallet simple with yellow, black and white- giving the logo a sleek sophisticated look my business. The lettering on the side add to the high class look of the logo by its stream line font and lay out- the downward written lettering and then the adjacent sub title gives the uniqueness that make this a simple but memorable logo.

Well here is a perfect example of me not looking at the order i'm uploading... oh well.
LOGO 3: i like this one the best it has a vibe to it with the bold lines in the dress sketch and the colors that pop out in the skirt. For this one i wanted to take a more modern young look to it, something that i could see printed on t-shirts or bags or stickers ( we do love stickers). this , like all of the logos, came out of experimenting with colors and shapes until something fit- which is how i ended up with the soft orange yellow background- it gave it edge yet refined the logo so certain parts popped. I personally like the cut out lines for the boarder, i think its a nice little detail for symbolizing the job.





Lastly and still backwards from how it should be presented...
LOGO 4:
this was the first one i created on this assignment, and i like it as a humble design. It doesn't scream modern or sleek or funny, instead it is this calm beautiful rendering for a logo. I chose the colors because they were relaxing and they seems serious yet sweet, which is what i would want to exude on business card. It has an artistic touch, which shows the companies creativity while also keeping to a professional look. I enjoyed this one a lot.

I am officially calling my topic wedding dresses. not weddings... so there...

(this is an photo by Chris Roberts of heavy rain in a forest. found in the blog, "like the air i breathe")


To start, i had a wonderful break through in which i finally understood how i would go about this wedding dress business. it is an interest of mine, but for the longest time the only thing i could think of was lace and flowers and how long can anyone go on about that? not to mention i was sick of pink and blue. BUT then i though what does the wedding dress mean ? and i came to this image and thus branched into my ideas




these two drawings above are from my own sketch book. doodling a few dress ideas, now to be used for a lovely image...
And finally here is the brilliance. While many may look at this and see a haunting work of integrated wedding garb, i beg to differ. What does, as i asked before, the wedding dress truly mean but purity? At least originally this is what the dress represented. The WHITE dress, which represented virginity, was worn by the bride to be presented as a pure and beautiful women for her new life. Thus we come to the question of how we view purity or rather what is purity? Well What better representation than the natural and cleansing rain? it purifies are world as it pours down, while it gives life (which, in the old days, marriage was "must do" to start a new life and/or creating new life) and a fresh start when the sun comes out. So, in a sense rain and all that attributes to it is a jump off point for inspiration with wedding dresses: it is strong and beautiful, powerful and delicate, fierce and gentle.

this is a picture of a tulip

Improving and ridiculous-izing

this be the original
Before you saw this lovely and bright church top above you would have seen a dreary darker church that lacks in its actual color. to bring out the church i selected it and changed the color balance (bringing out its green and blue) as well as increased the brightness and contrast. This allowed it to pop forward from the back ground. But leaving it so bright from the grayed background made it looks fake and odd so i went tot he back ground and lightened it up a bit, as well as saturating the color.




for this one, to give it a more stylized and hectic look, (that does in fact parallel with most weddings), i took the fore ground a back ground and separately changed their hue to a pallet of colors that called out to a modern wedding (despite the fact that I'm not much of a pink person). Afterward i used the gradient tool to create a spiral light effect in the sky. As well i used the marquee and wand tool to select sections to move around and lighten/darken certain sections- including the top and bottom boarder. This was also the effect that broke up the sky. lastly i used the brush tool to paint in some stars, to represent the sparkle and wonder of the special day.

Backdrops, perspective and another talk about topics

after fiddling with the back ground a bit I've come up with something i actually like! While the image doesn't follow the usual color scheme of a wedding (or wedding dress) i think it still fits the ticket. A lot of weddings tend to go into the night, become an all out dance party/ club and this picture is representative of that. while it still has the sleekness of night and the darker and colder hues, there is a layer of warm pink that pulls you into the happiness and fun of the wedding occasion (and gives it that party feel of the reception ).




Irony, i will admit, that this picture (the back ground) is of an installment called the gates of hell, but lets face it, im sure many would agree a marriage can be like that. But, i chose this picture probably the same reason why so many people do their wedding pictures in front of it - its a beautiful layout- so what if its the gates to hells, i suppose any good marriage should start by being willing to take a little risk. Anyway, i think ive covered it up nicely with a lovely shade of red and the spiraling roses, representing the growth of love within the couple. (I'm sure there are more metaphors or analogies or such i could put to this, but you get the point.)

A topic of Lace

As we all know by now, i have adopted the lovely and somewhat broad topic of Wedding (in hopes of venturing into dresses) . so in light of this i give you a few photos to wrap your mind around and feel the wedding spirit. Enjoy



This is probably the most obvious of all the pictures, for how it pertains to weddings. not only does the colors follow the common and classic scheme, it also shows a great lot of detail in the bead work of the (would be) dress. That is in fact one of my favorite parts of this dress, despite the lovely fabric. This picture represents the simple and complex aspects of a wedding.



This, i would imagine is a little less obvious. While normally we think of weddings with lace and flowers, there is a pattern and a delicacy to this spider web that can be seen or inspire a lot in a wedding, from the arrangement of flowers or even the table lay out or to the patterns on a dress.


Back to obvious, we have very sweet and innocent looking flowers. the color mixed with the shape and movement of the plant aids to ideas of shape in dresses and decoration ideas, such as layers or placement of fabrics on the walls or how the tables should be set up.



This last one is actually more for the mental side of weddings, or the dream side. While weddings and the planning around them are far from relaxing the love and dream of the day and what is to come in the future has a relaxing and pleasing feel. this is why i chose an old picture from the beach, it gives the feel of the happiness and peacefulness surrounding the reason for weddings, and has also be used as a theme more than once for someones wedding day.